Apple's innovative administrative tools enable organizations of any size to host websites and deploy powerful web applications - quickly, easily and affordably.
Mac OS X Server combines the latest open source and standards-based Internet services in a complete, easy-to-use web hosting solution. At the core is Apache, the world's most popular web server. Performance-optimized for Mac OS X Server, Apache provides fast, reliable web hosting and an extensible architecture for delivering dynamic content, hosting sophisticated web services and deploying enterprise Java applications.
Site Hosting
You don't need to be an experienced webmaster to set up websites and host them on Mac OS X Server. With the intuitive administrative interface, you can immediately start up a static website or deploy even the most sophisticated of sites. Apache's robust server-side architecture supports dynamic content generated by server-side includes (SSIs), PHP, Apache modules and custom CGIs - as well as by JavaServer Pages (JSPs) and Java Servlets. The Server Admin tool makes it easy to extend Apache's functionality - simply click the checkbox to enable or disable each module.
You can use a wide variety of built-in tools for serving dynamic content, CGI scripting, database integration and collaborative publishing - and manage your sites with OpenSSL for encrypted data transport. That means you can host stores, auctions, shared calendars, portal systems, polls and other database-driven services right out of the box.
Enterprise Applications and Web Services
Mac OS X Server includes all of the components necessary to host high-performance J2EE-based applications - including JBoss, Apache Tomcat and Apache Axis. Together that gives you support for enterprise-class application services such as Enterprise Java Beans (EJB), Java Management Extension (JMX) infrastructure, XML-based web services and Java Database Connectivity (JDBC). With Apache Axis, Mac OS X Server supports SOAP and WSDL Web Services standards for exchanging data among distributed applications. Increasingly popular for business-to-business transactions, these transport protocols provide the integration essential in sophisticated, multi-tiered applications.


